Exam 19: Nationalism and Statebuilding: Unifying Nations, 1850-1870

The North Germany Confederation created by Bismarck after the Austro-Prussian War had a legislature elected by universal male suffrage.

Canada gained its independence from which nation in 1867?

Although large and populous, the Kingdom of Naples was so weak that the Italian nationalist Garibaldi quickly conquered it with an army of only a thousand armed civilian adventurers.

In the enthusiasm over the Prussian victory against France, the Prussian army ransacked the palace of Louis XIV at Versailles.

In order to defeat Austria, which was much more powerful than the Piedmont, Cavour made a secret alliance with ________.

Napoleon III

Giuseppe Garibaldi was the prime minister of Piedmont who organized the unification of Italy.

Cavour's planning for Italian unification included

The Crimean War

When Alexander II of Russia decreed freedom for the serfs, he insured that they received generous amounts of land.

In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire, was often called derisively the "________."

One of Napoleon III's foreign adventures turned into a failure when he failed to establish a puppet emperor in ________.

The immediate occasion for Bismarck becoming prime minister was

Although the North Germany Confederation had a legislature elected by universal male suffrage, the text regards the Confederation as a basically ________ regime.

How did such leaders as Napoleon III in France and Alexander II in Russia try to link nationalism and state building? Were they successful?

By 1850, Russia was unique among European countries in that its peasants were still ________.

After the loss to Prussia in 1866, the German population of the Austrian Empire allied with the________ (or Hungarians) to share political power and keep other nationalities subordinate.

Japan in the nineteenth century

In the nineteenth century, Russia was termed the "Sick Man of Europe."

The Italian state that became the core of a modern, united Italy was ________.